Improvement in horse-clipping machines



S. REYNOLDS & M. l. EARL.

Horse-Clipping Machines.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

SAMUEL REYNOLDS, OF PIERREPONT MANOR, AND MELVIN J. EARL, OF MANNSVILLE;SAID EARL ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES ROBINSON, OF NEW YORK, n. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-CLIPPING MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153, 846, dated August4, 1874: application filed February 9, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL REYNOLDS, of Pierrepont Manor, and MELVIN J.EARL, of Mannsville, in the county of Jefferson and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines forClipping Animals and we do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it,reference being had to the accompanying drawings which form part of thisspecification.

The nature of our invention relates to an improvement in machines forclipping animals and it consists in the arrangement and combination ofdevices, which will be more fully described hereafter, whereby avibrating lever, to which the cutting device is applied, is operated bymeans of compressed air.

Figure 1 represents a plan view of our invention, partly in section.

A represents a cylinder, of any desired size, in which the rockingpiston 0, moving airtight, is journaled. Attached to this cylinder bypipes at is a double-acting valveless airpump, which, at each stroke ofits piston, forces a body of compressed air against one wing of therocking piston 0, while it sucks or draws upon the other. Secured to therocking piston is a lever, g, which projects outward through an openingin the side of the cylinder, and is connectedor attached, by means ofthe stud z, with the slotted end of the vibrating lever h, to which acutting device, I, is secured, which works back and forth over the comb0 in the usual manner. Between of the wings '0 when they strike againstthe block, and thus prevent any noise being made which might frightenthe horse.

The air-pump may be geared in any suitable manner, so that the pistonwill vibrate very rapidly, and give a correspondingly rapid motion tothe knife.

The pump may be attached to any suitable base, and as theconnecting-pipes are rubber the clipping-machine can be moved with thegreatest freedom all over and around the animal.

We are aware that sheepshearin g machines in which a reciprocatingpiston is used have been driven by air, and these we disclaim.

Having thus described our invention, we claim In a machine for clippinghorses, the combination of the slotted cylinder a, rocking piston a,block a, lever g t, and cutting devices h l, the parts being arrangedand combined to operate substantially as shown and de scribed.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our handsthis 4th day February, 1874.

SAMUEL REYNOLDS. MELVIN J. EARL.

Vlitnesses:

HIRAM ALLEN, BENJ. P. LARNED.

